2013/02/20 by A. Kh. Argynova, A.Kh. Argynova, Argynova, A. Kh. +9
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #82D80 #Copper-based nanomaterials and applications #FOS: Physical sciences #J.2 #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials #ZnO doping and properties #acm:82D80 #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #msc:82D80
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1302.4821
9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
arxiv created 2013/02/20 · openalex publication_date 2013/02/20 · arxiv updated 2013/02/21 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Size-property relations in plasma-modified ZnO thin films have been investigated as a function of plasma treatment duration. The correlations between crystallite sizes and the morphological characteristics of films have been extracted on the basis of the frontier computational analysis of the scanning probe microscope (SPM) data matrices. The nanocluster structure of oxide films have been studied in detail with high accuracy. The strong plasma-induced changes in crystallite sizes have been interpreted as a size-structure phase transition. Direct measurements of X-ray diffraction and optical transmittance spectra have confirmed the results obtained with computational approaches. The discovery size-morphology correlations in thin oxide films might open new avenues ultimately leading towards deeper insight into unsolved problems of evaluation of optimal technological conditions for thin oxide film designing.